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MY COUNTRY LIFE
Jane says she was too busy with her life and family
to be actively looking for love, when Michael Moore
inveigled his way into her heart. “Michael used to come
up on weekends and help out on the farm with jobs
such as painting and fencing,” she recalls. The couple
married in 2008.
In the ensuing decade, Jane and Michael, who has a
long career in fi nancial management and now works
in Orange, have gradually fi nessed the homestead,
adapting it as family life ebbed and fl owed. At one stage,
James and his wife, Emma, and their daughter, Isabella,
moved in while they built a house in Millthorpe, while
the extended family comes and goes as holidays and
weekends in the country permit.
Jane has brought a designer’s eye to the interiors,
which has a cool white aesthetic enlivened with lamps
from Steal the Limelight in Brookvale and homewares
and soft furnishings from Alexander Santorini and
MCM House. Every window captures views of the
surrounding farmland, which may include glimpses of
Jane’s herd of Belted Galloways. “They are pets really,”
she says. “We raise them for fun and because they are
beautiful cattle. They are quiet and easy to manage and
we sell them privately from time to time.”
The garden is a constant work in progress and
Jane and Michael open occasionally in spring for the
Millthorpe Garden Ramble. This event, which is heldThese pages: Jane favours a cool white aesthetic
and colours in the details with cushions, throws,
lamps and artworks. Favourite haunts include
Material World, MCM House and Ella Maiden
Australia. Cowhides by Alexander Santorini.